Cooling Emissions and Policy Synthesis Report
- Posted By
10Pointer
- Categories
Environment
- Published
22nd Jul, 2020
-
- Recently, the Cooling Emissions and Policy Synthesis Report: Benefits of cooling efficiency and the Kigali agreement was released.
- The report was published by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Energy Agency (IEA).
- The world will have four times more or at least 14 billion cooling appliances by 2050, contributing significantly to rising temperatures.
- Without policy intervention, direct and indirect emissions from air conditioning and refrigeration are projected to rise by 90 per cent above 2017 levels by the year 2050.
- About Hydro fluorocarbons (HFC)
- HFCs became widely used refrigerant substitutes for ozone-depleting substances that were phased out under the Montreal Protocol.
- HFC is a potent greenhouse gas with a global warming potential (GWP) thousands of times that of CO2 in some cases.
- Most of this gas is consumed in the cooling sector, comprising refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pumps (RACHP) in mobile and stationary applications.
